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Guy Lodge

Film Columnist

Guy Lodge is a South African-born writer and film critic with an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School. In addition to being a weekly Observer columnist, he is the UK film critic for Variety, and a regular contributor to The Guardian, Sight & Sound and the BBC Arts Hour. He lives in London.

Photo of Guy Lodge

Guy Lodge

Film Columnist

Guy Lodge is a South African-born writer and film critic with an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School. In addition to being a weekly Observer columnist, he is the UK film critic for Variety, and a regular contributor to The Guardian, Sight & Sound and the BBC Arts Hour. He lives in London.

  • Guy Lodge
    The ice-cold movie to spoil your Thanksgiving

    Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm is the perfect holiday killjoy with its fractious families and middle-class discontent

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    Why Ari Aster’s Eddington deserves a reappraisal

    On second watch, this widely panned satire – now on digital platforms – plays less like absurdist parody and more as dead-on portraiture of our polarised, hyper-online moment

    Sun, 16 Nov 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    On Swift Horses, Christy and The Courageous

    Jacob Elordi recalls mid-century matinee idols in Daniel Minahan’s full-hearted weepy

    Fri, 5 Sept 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    A detective surveys the wreckage of a single-vehicle collision

    In the latest solo project from one half of the director duo, a detective surveys the wreckage of a single-vehicle collision. It’s an apt metaphor for this scattered, aimless movie

    Wed, 3 Sept 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    Guy Lodge’s pick of other films: Freakier Friday, The Kingdom, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

    Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reprise their roles in Disney’s body-swap tale. But 22 years after their first film, there’s not much juice left to squeeze out of the idea

    Sat, 9 Aug 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    Cinema’s greatest Jane Austen adaptations

    From Sense and Sensibility to Clueless, the best films to revisit ahead of the novelist’s 250th anniversary

    Fri, 8 Aug 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    The real horror of Weapons is US blame culture

    Zach Cregger’s dark fable warns of the dangers of witch-hunts and conspiratorial thinking

    Fri, 8 Aug 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    Great escapades: the best caper films

    From Ealing Studios to Wes Anderson, the genre is distinguished by cheerfully lowered dramatic stakes, amped-up comedy and a we’re-all-in-this-together spirit

    Sun, 6 Jul 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    Streaming: Four Mothers and the growing canon of queer acceptance

    This tender Irish comedy is the latest affectionate depiction of proud parents

    Sun, 22 Jun 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    Dinner and a movie: 17 films to feast on

    New York diner drama La cocina, now on Mubi, simmers nicely alongside culinary film hits Big Night, Tampopo, Boiling Point, The Taste of Things and more

    Tue, 3 Jun 2025

  • Guy Lodge
    Juliette Binoche finally gets to run the show at Cannes

    Madam President… the journey of France’s favourite star from ingenue to first lady

    Sun, 4 May 2025

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